Milford, Derbyshire Family History Guide

Milford is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1846 from Belper Ecclesiastical Parish and Duffield Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Makeney.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1846
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: General Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

MILFORD, a village and a chapelry in Duffield parish, Derby.

The village stands on the river Derwent, adjacent to the Midland railway, 1 mile N of Duffield r. station, and 1½ S of Belper; is a considerable place: carries on extensive business in a large cotton factory, in bleaching and dyeing works, and in a foundry for the manufacture of machinery; and has a post-office under Derby.

The chapelry contains also the hamlet of Makeney, and was constituted in 1846. Pop., 1,770. Houses, 340.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1848, at a cost of £2,000, on a site given by the Messrs. Strutt; and is a neat edifice of nave and chancel, in the pointed style.

There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and United Free Methodists. There are also large schools, connected with the cotton factory.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Registers

England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Belper
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Duffield
  • Poor Law Union: Belper
  • Hundred: Appletree
  • Province: Canterbury